gorge
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Glancing back half a mile later, he saw a towering wall of brown water churning through the gorge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
A colony of macaques that gorge on snacks offered by tourists in the British territory of Gibraltar swallow soil to recover from their junk food binges, a study has found.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Isak Andic, the founder of fashion chain Mango, died in late 2024 after falling more than 300 feet into a gorge while out trekking with his son in the Montserrat mountains near Barcelona.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Then there’s a gorge in between and it’s filled with all these, like, monster people that are trying to get them.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 6, 2026
The bridge over the gorge is only wide enough for two people to walk side by side.
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
It offers quiet roads along coastlines and river gorges and into mountains, among rice paddies and through towns with tiled roofs where villagers pride themselves on their Shikoku hospitality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
"The gorges are very deep and steep, so that's the difficulty."
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Beside him, a younger woman was planning to embark on a long taxi drive with him, across steep mountain passes and narrow gorges, first to Armenia's capital, Yerevan, and then on to nearby Georgia.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
Elisabeth, resentful, gorges on whatever fatty food she can find.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
Narrow trails rising above deep gorges now forced the company to go in single file.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
“You think that Alex Jones gorged himself on Whataburger? You’re saying five triple cheeseburgers and how many fry boxes?”
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
January tends to come with a slowdown in spending after consumers have gorged on shopping for the holidays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Nancy has gone to three at the back, and with three left-footers, which is something that Derek McInnes gorged on at Tynecastle.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
Instead, the American and British public gorged on the sensationalism because that was the supposedly “official” record.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2025
For years she lay silently in her cell while the Head Sister gorged herself on sorrow.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
Barely a handful of winters have passed since Patriots fans, still gorging on six titles,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
After spending July gorging on the larvae of alkali flies, the birds are gradually departing this month to begin their migration to another saline lake about 6,000 miles away — Laguna Mar Chiquita in Argentina.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
Rather, it denotes licentiousness and lack of control, the actions of a toddler gorging himself on chocolate until he is sick.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2025
“It seems to have been really gorging itself, eating very rapidly.”
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2023
Her lips resemble two leeches puffed up from gorging on blood.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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